Documentary photographer John Christian
was born in Sherman, Texas on October 27, 1940. The son of a mining engineer
spent his early years in Mexico City and in mining districts in and around
central Mexico. His works have appeared in Texas Monthly, Popular Photography,
The San Francisco Review of Art, Cuartoscuro and Mexico Desconocido. In 1976 he
received the University of Texas at Austin’s Dobie Paisano Fellowship for
documentary work on the Huichol Indians. John Christian currently lives and
works in Austin, Texas.

The collection is comprised of
Christian’s work from 1968 through 1993. Subjects include Austin, Dallas, San
Antonio, Houston, and other locations around Texas, Los Angeles, fellow artists
and photographers, black Texans, Mance Lipscomb and a Monarch butterfly
expedition. He has also traveled and photographed extensively in Mexico,
including several studies of the Huichol Indians.